An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks

This paper explores the factors that affect banks' credit risk and looks at UK banks. The ratio of non-performing loans to gross loans is used to quantify credit risk as the dependent variable. Seven independent variables were selected, of which bank capital, size and profitability were used as...

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Main Author: ZHOU, YUBING
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2022
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70604/
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description This paper explores the factors that affect banks' credit risk and looks at UK banks. The ratio of non-performing loans to gross loans is used to quantify credit risk as the dependent variable. Seven independent variables were selected, of which bank capital, size and profitability were used as bank-level independent variables, and exchange rate, GDP growth, inflation rate and unemployment were used as macroeconomic-level independent variables. In this study, 119 banks in the UK were selected as samples, spanning the period 2016 to 2020. Regression analysis was conducted using panel data and concluded that bank capital, size and exchange rate are positively and statistically significantly related to credit risk. Yield rate, GDP growth and unemployment are significantly negatively related to credit risk. In addition, the coefficient of the inflation rate is not significant.
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spelling nottingham-706042023-07-06T13:16:23Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70604/ An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks ZHOU, YUBING This paper explores the factors that affect banks' credit risk and looks at UK banks. The ratio of non-performing loans to gross loans is used to quantify credit risk as the dependent variable. Seven independent variables were selected, of which bank capital, size and profitability were used as bank-level independent variables, and exchange rate, GDP growth, inflation rate and unemployment were used as macroeconomic-level independent variables. In this study, 119 banks in the UK were selected as samples, spanning the period 2016 to 2020. Regression analysis was conducted using panel data and concluded that bank capital, size and exchange rate are positively and statistically significantly related to credit risk. Yield rate, GDP growth and unemployment are significantly negatively related to credit risk. In addition, the coefficient of the inflation rate is not significant. 2022-09-08 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70604/2/20356720-BUSI4019-EC%20pending_2021_22.pdf ZHOU, YUBING (2022) An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title_full An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title_fullStr An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title_full_unstemmed An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title_short An Empirical Study of Credit Risk Determinants in UK Banks
title_sort empirical study of credit risk determinants in uk banks
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/70604/